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While the men’s team showed signs of improvement on the World Cup circuit last weekend, after a hard couple of years at the bottom of the scoreboard, the women’s team uncharacteristically failed to qualify even a single skier for the finals

Swiss racer slices through safety net One of skiing’s fastest rising stars was paralyzed below the chest on Dec.

Melanie Turgeon, the star of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team with four trips to the World Cup podium last year, was among the athletes named to the ballot for the annual Canadian Press Female Athlete of the Year award – otherwise known as the Bobbi

Strong Canadian side looking for World Cup podiums Poor snow conditions at the Mont Ste.

Strong winds may have grounded the air force, but once they had their clearance from ground control, it was business as usual.

Whisler’s Morgan Titus, who is currently attending the University of British Columbia, has qualified to represent Canada at the cross country running world championships in Dublin, Ireland next March.

Turgeon comes close, Kostner claims both downhills Canada’s Melanie Turgeon crashed in the first World Cup downhill of the season, at Lake Louise last week, but came back to place fourth in the second downhill and ninth in the super G.

On the opening day of the Hershey Alberta Cup and NorAm series, running from Dec. 3 to 11 at Lake Louise, the Canadian men came out on top against a field of North American and European skiers and swept the super-G.

There are a few new faces on the Whistler Freeride Team this year, including some of the top skiers and snowboarders on the planet.

Canada’s Jasey Jay Anderson, the reigning Snowboard World Cup champion, earned a bronze medal on Nov. 30 in the parallel slalom at Ischgl, Austria, a "snow date" event for a cancelled World Cup at Kaprun, Austria, the week before.